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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

4th Mar 2009, 18:33

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By beefix

PN Escape drills became compulsory for crew...

PN
Escape drills became compulsory for crew chiefs after the 1975 Vulcan crash in Malta. I was just about to finish CC training at the time of the crash. A sad business but the BoI did reveal some...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

9th Jul 2008, 17:53

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

Views: 1,199,392

Posted By beefix

XH875 The rapid air start system was the very...

XH875
The rapid air start system was the very devil to maintain and not many Vulcans had both port and stbd systems servicable at the same time. The system also required a very large amount of...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

21st May 2007, 20:11

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By beefix

Xj 824

BEagle
We flew it back from Barksdale to Waddington via Goose Bay 14-16 November 1979. That's the only time I flew it; it had been one of our 4 Giant Voice '79 a/c, but was ferried home after the...

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